PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning Chamber, Behaviorism

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Paul Wehr

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We do(cid:374)"t thro(cid:449) older perspe(cid:272)ti(cid:448)es of psy(cid:272)hology i(cid:374) the gar(cid:271)age. Classical conditioning is a learning that results from associations of neutral environmental stimuli with automatic responses. Type of behavior: automatic physiological reflex which is involuntary. And accidentally discovered most important discovery in psychology- classical or pavlovian conditioning. The sound of footsteps of the man who entered the room with food caused the dog to salivate. Conditional got translated to conditioning because translation from russian. Us or ucs for unconditional stimulus in journals or books. Evolution by natural selection has caused the unconditioned responses. After conditioning the neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus. We should present the unconditioned stimulus before the neutral stimulus. Re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er, the t(cid:449)o sti(cid:373)ulus should(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e prese(cid:374)ted si(cid:373)ulta(cid:374)eously. Best learning is interval between the two stimulus should be <1 s. Theres no limit to the number of conditioned reflex added to the process. This line in graph is the generalized gradient.